RARE LIVERPOOL LEEDS OR STAFFORDSHIRE ANTIQUE POTTERY PEARLWARE MINIATURE "TOY" TEABOWL & SAUCER SETS (PAIR) C.1785-1800

"Two attractive and finely potted pearlware miniature "toy" teabowl and saucer sets with distinctive Liverpool style hand painted blue and white decoration - more usually found on 18th century Liverpool delftware and porcelain. Similar items were made by the Leeds Pottery and in Staffordshire. Two special antique pottery rarities. Enjoy!" Antiques Expert Hamilton Bear.
 
References: Rare early examples of pearlware dating from circa 1785-1800. The distinctive floral decoration with tadpole leaves and barb-hook ends is a feature found on Liverpool tinglazed earthenware and it is most probable therefore that the pottery was also produced locally. Attribution both to and within the Liverpool factories is subject to recent review and debate and must be accepted in good faith. Miniature items - "toys" from children's play tea sets; have not survived in any great quantity from the eighteenth century in pottery or porcelain. They are more commonly found as Staffordshire pottery of the 1820's.
Dimensions: width saucers 92 mm max. height teabowls 34 mm max. and 32 mm max.
Marks: none
Condition: Very good general condition for display. There is a very faint fine short glaze hairline to exterior rim of one saucer that shows with a magnifier. The other saucer has one flat shallow rim chip, light in colour. To one teabowl, a similar flat rim chip and fine short hairline from rim. The remaining teabowl has just a tiny 'firing' chip to inside footrim.
 
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